Domaine des Bosquets Séguret Côtes-du-Rhône Villages 2023
£21.75
The wine
Séguret is one of the named villages of the Côtes-du-Rhône Villages appellation, a hilltop settlement north-west of Gigondas with vineyards on the slopes below it.
The named villages sit a rung above generic Côtes-du-Rhône and a rung below the crus like Gigondas and Vacqueyras, which makes them consistently the best value in the southern Rhône. Grenache leads the blend with Syrah for structure. Julien Bréchet farms 26 hectares at the foot of the Dentelles de Montmirail, the jagged limestone ridge above Gigondas, with vines up to a century old. The estate bottles several single sites separately rather than blending them.
The producer
Domaine des Bosquets
View all Domaine des Bosquets winesIn Gigondas, beneath the jagged peaks of the Dentelles de Montmirail, Domaine des Bosquets is one of the southern Rhône finest estates. Farmed by Julien Bréchet, it works a mosaic of high-altitude terroirs that give its wines rare freshness and precision. Gigondas rarely tastes this refined.
The domaine bottles individual parcels and grape varieties separately, a rare and revealing approach in the region. Careful, low-intervention winemaking captures the character of each site with real clarity. The style is pure, structured, and detailed.
The range climbs from a bright Côtes-du-Rhône to a suite of single-parcel Gigondas cuvées, each expressing a different grape or terroir. Together they map the appellation with quiet brilliance.
To pour a des Bosquets wine is to taste Gigondas at its most sophisticated. Fresh, mineral, and profound, these are southern Rhône reds for the connoisseur.
